The Coming Of Cheesus

Niko Bellick said:

Always good to have someone growing similar strains along for the ride. so far other than me burning her alil bit its coming along nicely. Just mixed up some new nutrients too 350ppm from 275 I think. My only complaint so far is the mutant looking leaf in the pics above (hope it doesnt continue as I wanted to possibly clone her.

How are you growing yours? soil? hydro? feminized seeds I'm assuming? Been wanting to try some tangerine dream, does it actually have that taste too it?

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thanks! I am just starting the seeds cracked sat night and now two bubble cheese one pine apple express and a western winds sit in rock wool cubes under 11,500 lumen cfls. the seedlings also have a microbial dip (plant success) for a little beneficial mycellum. I have one water farm from craigslist sans the pump (fuckers) so gotta get a pump however in the meantime I have a tone of rubbermaids left over from a move and a new waterpump for aero so I will go Mcgeyver that tomorrow. I will lay a screen over them soon there after at about 1 foot. Also will be adding extra oxegyn into the wa wa. Next week is purchase day for either a 400 watt or 600 watt light. Bit freaked out about energy spiking on my bill and if i could afford it I would go digital ballast but as London burns and the stocks crash I believe I will sit that one out for a bit.. The week after that I'll do the carbon filter. Will get a RO soon enough but for now filtered watered (britta lol) and distilled by the gallon. I am toying with the W winds as an outside project but were I live any seedling is munched in 0 time. Also cracking a Barneys LSD tonight !

'Got the waterfarm sitting in a five gallonish cooler with those big medical ice packs on either side. fish tank thermometer reads 64 as of a few minutes ago "
ya know I hear a good cooler is a great thing to put the whole shebang in there esp if your dropping the $ for ice packs just a thought.

ironheadxl said:

'Got the waterfarm sitting in a five gallonish cooler with those big medical ice packs on either side. fish tank thermometer reads 64 as of a few minutes ago "
ya know I hear a good cooler is a great thing to put the whole shebang in there esp if your dropping the $ for ice packs just a thought.

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It is sitting in a cooler haha. a Coleman brand I believe. Ice Packs I get for free thanks too the wife being a nurse haha.

ironheadxl said:

thanks! I am just starting the seeds cracked sat night and now two bubble cheese one pine apple express and a western winds sit in rock wool cubes under 11,500 lumen cfls. the seedlings also have a microbial dip (plant success) for a little beneficial mycellum. I have one water farm from craigslist sans the pump (fuckers) so gotta get a pump however in the meantime I have a tone of rubbermaids left over from a move and a new waterpump for aero so I will go Mcgeyver that tomorrow. I will lay a screen over them soon there after at about 1 foot. Also will be adding extra oxegyn into the wa wa. Next week is purchase day for either a 400 watt or 600 watt light. Bit freaked out about energy spiking on my bill and if i could afford it I would go digital ballast but as London burns and the stocks crash I believe I will sit that one out for a bit.. The week after that I'll do the carbon filter. Will get a RO soon enough but for now filtered watered (britta lol) and distilled by the gallon. I am toying with the W winds as an outside project but were I live any seedling is munched in 0 time. Also cracking a Barneys LSD tonight !

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Hmm not sure what your guys charge per kilowatt hour over there but when I had my thousand watt hps it added a good forty bucks to my bill but was well worth it.
Distilled water by the gallon. comes out at 1 ppm love it.
Very nice variety you have going bro, Wouldn't mind getting some original U.K cheese myself.
Yeah I've been reading about the three days of riots over that fellow getting shot. We missing something in the news over hear about that? just asking cuz it seems crazy mass riots over one shooting.

ironheadxl said:

thanks! I am just starting the seeds cracked sat night and now two bubble cheese one pine apple express and a western winds sit in rock wool cubes under 11,500 lumen cfls. the seedlings also have a microbial dip (plant success) for a little beneficial mycellum. I have one water farm from craigslist sans the pump (fuckers) so gotta get a pump however in the meantime I have a tone of rubbermaids left over from a move and a new waterpump for aero so I will go Mcgeyver that tomorrow. I will lay a screen over them soon there after at about 1 foot. Also will be adding extra oxegyn into the wa wa. Next week is purchase day for either a 400 watt or 600 watt light. Bit freaked out about energy spiking on my bill and if i could afford it I would go digital ballast but as London burns and the stocks crash I believe I will sit that one out for a bit.. The week after that I'll do the carbon filter. Will get a RO soon enough but for now filtered watered (britta lol) and distilled by the gallon. I am toying with the W winds as an outside project but were I live any seedling is munched in 0 time. Also cracking a Barneys LSD tonight !

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Microbial dip? whats the brand name? Wouldn't mind picking some of that up myself haha.

So, I'm reading up on the use of UVB lighting during flowering. Seems worth a try. heres an article from another site that seems to explain well enough. let me know what you guys think.

UVB
Don't know if any of you have heard about UVB lighting . They use them in reptile houses to provide the reptiles with their UVB fix

. Anyway studies show that the (Δ9- tetrahydrocannabinol) in the trichomes on a cannabis plant abosrbs the harmful UVB rays to protect the plant . So the more UVB rays you fire at a plant the More THC it will produce to protect itself .

HPS lights don't produce any UVB at all
Green house glass is engineered to filter out UVB
Metal Halide lamps produce ALOT of UVB but it gets filtered out by the glass that the bulb is made off .

However , you can buy the specially made reptile lights from pet stores ( They're long fluro looking tubes ) . These produce alot of UVB and it doesn't get filtered out .

UVB is the reason why weed grown in Afghanistan can be very potent . Thanks to "Global Warming" wev'e now got holes in the ozone layer above afghanistan and Holland , these holes let more UVB rays penatrate so the plants in these areas go into THC production overdrive to stop themselves burning up .

Heres a link explaining it in a little more detail http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IPcpt3Be28o

Also two brothers both grew clones of the same plant , in exactly the same conditions apart from one brother had a Reptile UVB light in his growroom . Anyway at the end of the grows the UVB plant had 20% more THC on its main cola and other areas around the top of the plant .

The main problem with reptile lights is the penetration , they run at low wattages (25-48 watts) . And can only pentetrate a few inches (4-6) . However they are cheap about £20 for a 10% producing UVB light . If you had the money and wanted to splash out you could pick up a skin treatment UVB lamp for £400

these things run at 300-400 watts and really pump out UVB .

Basicly what im saying is if you drop your humidity and slam on the UVB rays when the plant is mid flower your going to get some beasty THC production .


*I copied this from somewhere else I did not write it but seems to explain it well*

Niko Bellick said:

It is sitting in a cooler haha. a Coleman brand I believe. Ice Packs I get for free thanks too the wife being a nurse haha.

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and thats why we should think twice when posting stoned

ironheadxl said:

and thats why we should think twice when posting stoned

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Shoulda read some of the stuff I posted in my last grow journal. Makes sense when your on your third bowl but thats about it lol.

Yeah I've been reading about the three days of riots over that fellow getting shot. We missing something in the news over hear about that? just asking cuz it seems crazy mass riots over one shooting.[/QUOTE]



lol it was cos a copper shot some bad boy when he didnt shoot first,, that a big no no over here, they have to shoot first before law is allowed to fight back. mad innit? that was the tottenham riots, justified i reckon, but now every chavvie prick in the country is avvin a go at a riot so they can loot shops an that. it been in manchester birmingham croydon west brom leicester tottenham and a few other cities.. cops are just so soft over here, they nt even used rubber bullets on em yet,, .. now we gt groups of footy thugs going out kicking off cos footy been cancelled, starting on looters, sikhs an muslims gathering in street to PROTECT their mosques etc,, its funny as fck ,, wat wud the cops do over there if gangs of youths were randomly running round town smashing shit up and looting??

sweetsmoker said:

Yeah I've been reading about the three days of riots over that fellow getting shot. We missing something in the news over hear about that? just asking cuz it seems crazy mass riots over one shooting.

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lol it was cos a copper shot some bad boy when he didnt shoot first,, that a big no no over here, they have to shoot first before law is allowed to fight back. mad innit? that was the tottenham riots, justified i reckon, but now every chavvie prick in the country is avvin a go at a riot so they can loot shops an that. it been in manchester birmingham croydon west brom leicester tottenham and a few other cities.. cops are just so soft over here, they nt even used rubber bullets on em yet,, .. now we gt groups of footy thugs going out kicking off cos footy been cancelled, starting on looters, sikhs an muslims gathering in street to PROTECT their mosques etc,, its funny as fck ,, wat wud the cops do over there if gangs of youths were randomly running round town smashing shit up and looting??[/QUOTE]

I think the last time we had major riots was over the Rodney King beating (which he was arrested yet again for DUI last month, so I still say it was probably justified the first time) and it was pretty much the same thing peeps running around stealing themselves a better tv. Pretty much the same response to a riot over here from the cops til they called in the national guard.

The cops at least launching alil tear gas at the mobs haha?

8/10/11 Update: Day 14 of veg. She's definitely going to be short and bushy as you can tell from the pics.
Temp:75 Res temp: 66
PH:5.5-5.8
PPM:318
RH:28
So still no root growth into the res but from what I can see the roots are super white with those little hairs growing off. Made a cheap cover to go over the top of the pot to reflect some light back to the underside o the leaves but mainly to keep the light off the hydroton/roots
I also changed the water schedule to 15 minutes every other hour to see if that spurs the roots to grow and search out the reservoir.

looking good niko

ok question I set up a waterfarm bought used and well there is the little seedling looking up at me like you ARE going to help me out here right? I see the drip ring dripping but it just seems so remote to the center of the waterfarm. Am I just being paranoid here?

hellraizer30 said:

looking good niko

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Thanks bro, coming along nicely just haven't hit that spurt during veg that I'm used too. good things come to those who wait I guess.

Niko Bellick said:

Thanks bro, coming along nicely just haven't hit that spurt during veg that I'm used too. good things come to those who wait I guess.

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yes they do.............

ironheadxl said:

ok question I set up a waterfarm bought used and well there is the little seedling looking up at me like you ARE going to help me out here right? I see the drip ring dripping but it just seems so remote to the center of the waterfarm. Am I just being paranoid here?

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Nope your not being paranoid. for the first week or so you need to hand water the plant as that little drip ring isn't going to do much for it til the roots spread out a little bit.
What medium are you using ? Mines in a rapid rooter plug. I usually give it one cup of water out of the res two or three times daily. Don't get the actual medium too wet just moist, just pour it around the base.
You'll love the water farm. I've seen ppl put banana trees in them if you get so inclined haha

Woot, two lone roots are now dipping into the res! I had lowered the ppm a few days ago but I think on the next res change I'll see if I can get away with 400 ppm as she is looking abit hungry (very light yellowish tinge maybe N def)

Niko Bellick said:

Nope your not being paranoid. for the first week or so you need to hand water the plant as that little drip ring isn't going to do much for it til the roots spread out a little bit.
What medium are you using ? Mines in a rapid rooter plug. I usually give it one cup of water out of the res two or three times daily. Don't get the actual medium too wet just moist, just pour it around the base.
You'll love the water farm. I've seen ppl put banana trees in them if you get so inclined haha

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ok good I jury rigged the farm lol. The watering ring is off and I have a loose clear tube that catches some water and drips it over the seedling which is in a greatly reduced ( you might say shredded pulled apart rockwool cube I'll say custom) cube. idid upgrade the air pump though to a dual for a little extra bubble action, temps 81 and nice fan gently blowing across my little babies.

ironheadxl said:

ok good I jury rigged the farm lol. The watering ring is off and I have a loose clear tube that catches some water and drips it over the seedling which is in a greatly reduced ( you might say shredded pulled apart rockwool cube I'll say custom) cube. idid upgrade the air pump though to a dual for a little extra bubble action, temps 81 and nice fan gently blowing across my little babies.

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Ahh wish I'd thought of rigging mine up like that haha. Sounds like its coming along nicely good sir. Do you plan on starting a grow journal? Yeah that little blue pump that comes with it ain't the greatest.

Okay, anybody got an opinion? Other than the yellowing perfectly healthy. I'm thinking she's just hungry.